Análise das condições de oferta da disciplina Sistemas de Informação em cursos de Ciências Contábeis presenciais da região Norte do Brasil

Abstract

The knowledge about the theme Information Systems has gained strength in accounting framework in recent years, due to large business demands in the constant pursuit of instrumentalization for improving their informational flows, aiming to obtain competitive differentials in their decision-making processes, or to meet the ancillary obligations digital beside the Taxman, in case the Public Digital Bookkeeping System. On the other hand, the academies of Sciences Accounting of Northern region of the country are making enormous efforts to keep pace with these changes, it being understood that his role is to reduce the existing gap between content Information Systems taught in the classroom and the real needs of the professional market regarding the matter, knowing that the solution to this problem will generate a greater appreciation of the professional accounting at the same time that you will open up new business opportunities. To this end, we have prepared a field research of type survey applied to 18 coordinators and 7 teachers, using as an instrument for data collection was a questionnaire with 37 questions, being the 36 first closed analyzed by statistical treatment and the last question by content analysis. The research problem, was developed in order to verify the conditions of teaching discipline Information Systems in undergraduate courses in Accounting Sciences in Higher Education institutions of the North Region of Brazil, under the perspective of coordinators and teachers of this region. The results obtained were that in spite of a greater integration between the teachers of the discipline, and an apparent improvement interdisciplinarity this, has not influenced the education plans and practices in the classroom; the strategy most often used is still the expositive classes, but still that timidly were identified other methodologies, such as: Seminars, technical visits, lectures from professionals working in the area of SI, workshops and discussion lists on social networks; as far as the infrastructure it was found that despite the use of other works that not only the books, the periodicity of the update and the quantity of the acquis communautaire is inefficient; in the case of laboratories of informatics is pointed out by the respondents as partially adequate, and for this reason, suggest improvements concerning the updating of hardware and software, to spaces to teach, the availability of simulation software and commercial for learners; in question open as well as suggestions on the infrastructure coordinators and teachers suggested improvements on issues related to the relationship: theory, practice and professional market, teacher preparation, predisposition learner and teaching methodology and content